Comments on: Maybe not the best ever, but perhaps the most surprisinghttp://walt.lishost.org/2009/01/maybe-not-the-best-ever-but-perhaps-the-most-surprising/
The library voice of the radical middle.Sun, 06 Nov 2016 03:32:43 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7By: laurahttp://walt.lishost.org/2009/01/maybe-not-the-best-ever-but-perhaps-the-most-surprising/comment-page-1/#comment-35388
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:08:22 +0000http://walt.lishost.org/?p=961#comment-35388That was a great issue, and, I believe, the precursor to many of us saying, “so I reviewed the literature — by which I mean the blogs.” (I think the line first showed up on Uncontrolled Vocabulary, but I could be wrong about that. Anyway, this C&I provides the intellectual justification for that practice elegantly and eloquently.) As for the surprise, well, I don’t think there’s a lot of correlation between how well a writer’s life is going and how well he’s writing. I say this both as someone who used to write and as someone who has read a lot of biographies of writers and has observed more than a few of them at close range.
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